Online consumers seem to agree: The more a site or app knows about a user, the better that user’s experience will be. That mantra has driven the need for personal accounts and logins at nearly every turn, and social sites such as Facebook and Google+ are competing to be your login of choice. Whether you’re […]

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian says the biggest mistake made by individuals trying to start companies is getting caught up in the idea rather than the execution, and he urged those with ideas to âjust launch.â âThey get caught up with the idea. Itâs sort of called wantrepreneurship,â Ohanian said in an interview for âThis Week.â […]

Louis C.K. is used to people stealing his jokes â but not his business model. In December 2011, C.K. started a small DIY revolution in comedy when he decided to self-release his “Live at the Beacon Theater” special online. Charging fans $5 per download, he said he was trying to save fans money and bypass […]

Search engine optimisation (SEO) is all about the quality of your backlinks, right? Wrong. Not any more. At least, not wholly, as anÂ updated studyÂ from those good people atSearchmetricsÂ has revealed just how important social media signals are to a strong SEO ranking, with well-positioned URLs almost always having a high number of Likes, shares, tweets and […]

Google Reader will close up shop on July 1, 2013.Â Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired When Google announced its plans to shutter Google Reader in March, the Internet freaked out. Twitter users raised their virtual pitchforks in outrage. Bloggers wept, scrambling to find a suitable replacement by the serviceâs July 1 death date. Obviously Google had to have […]

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Everyone knows the story of howÂ robots replaced humans on the factory floor. But in the broader sweep of automation versus labor, a trend with far greater significance for the middle classâin rich countries, at any rateâhas been relatively overlooked: the replacement of knowledge workers with software. One reason for the neglect is that this trend […]

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